Safety in Numbers? Group Privacy and Big Data Analytics in the Developing World

Taylor, Linnet, Safety in Numbers? Group Privacy and Big Data Analytics in the Developing World (October 6, 2016). in Group Privacy: the Challenges of New Data Technologies, Eds. Taylor, L., van der Sloot, B., Floridi, L. Springer: 2017 . Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2848825

This chapter argues that group privacy is a necessary element of a global perspective on privacy. Addressing the problem as a new epistemological phenomenon generated by big data analytics, it addresses three main questions: first, is this a privacy or a data protection problem, and what does this say about the way it may be addressed? Second, by resolving the problem of individual identifiability, do we resolve that of groups? And last, is a solution to this problem transferrable, or do different places ne